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Ure vs Uke - What's the difference?

ure | uke |

As a noun ure

is .

As a proper noun uke is

.

ure

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete, only in collocation in ure) .
  • * Chapman
    • Let us be sure of this, to put the best in ure / That lies in us.

    Verb

    (ur)
  • (obsolete) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    • The French soldiers from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. — Sir T. More.

    Anagrams

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    uke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From by shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ukulele.
    • English clippings

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
  • (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
  • * 2008 , Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 142:
    • Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.
  • * 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:
    • You'd rather have Sebas be an uke ?
  • * 2010 , Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King , Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781569701324, unnumbered page:
    • Shizuku is so, so, so'' cute! I love him as an ''uke so much I can't stand it!
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